Craftisian Blogs

First stab at a worktop workbench, I'll make a better one if i use it much. So going in I wanted it to be cheap (well, free), so I made the dimens...

I am currently gathering information on a project I am going to make . Im going to design and make a shadow box type picture frame for a pricy litt...

With all the joinery completed on the legs, I could work on rounding over their edges.  I went slowly, raising the 1/2" radius bit a little each ti...

Scope Creep is a common term in my line of work.  It means someone tells you they want something.  So you do the design work and present it.  Then ...

Well, I didn't really have the whole weekend but I had most of the day Saturday and a couple hours Sunday.  My goal was to get all my boards milled...

Last July, my sister sent me a message that my BIL, a Navy Diver, was going to retire in March.  She said he wanted a custom shadowbox and didn't l...

I needed a few things before I could start veneering the panels: • A jig to joint the edges of the veneer • A vacuum bag for the panels • Some plat...

The adjustable shelves will rest on the usual shelf pins.  All of the shelves will be the same size with indents on the underside to index the shel...

I finally got to switch gears and do some work on the legs/support for the cabinet.  Some of the rough shaping I had done a while back, but didn't ...

I found that the izombe is a little fragile on crosscuts with some chipping/flaking, even with the tracksaw on the MFT.  I assumed (but didn't conf...

Pulling back the curtain reveals a hideous sight.  Strewn cables, dust bunnies, an ethernet switch, missing wall plates, etc.  Some really nasty st...

After completing all the boring sanding of the individual panels, I started to glue-up some sub-assemblies.   Breaking-up the assembly into multipl...